When it comes to LRH Standard Tech Scientologists know and agree that it must not under any circumstances be changed or altered in any way. When we buy services in a Scientology Org or Mission we expect it to be 100% Standard Tech. Unfortunately this is not anymore to be found in Church of Scientology.

Well, there is certainly Tech, and a some of it is pure, but tremendous amounts of changes has been made since LRH died in January 1986. Case gains (personal wins and improvements) are still produced to some degree, particularly on intro services and lower levels, otherwise the Church would not be able to survive and sustain it's business. But if you take a new look at KSW Series 1, you will find this quote: "The only thing you can be upbraided for by students or pcs is "no results." Trouble spots occur only where there are "no results." Attacks from governments or monopolies occur only where there are "no results" or "bad results.""

Okay, we are all aware that there are plenty of enemies to Scientology. See this list of some of the court files. Ron himself was pretty open mouthed and created himself many enemies on that account, but the Church kept expanding under his leadership. And it kept expanding until beginning of the eighties. Then in 1981-82 a big crash of international stats. The Church's expansion stopped. What happened? Well, Ron withdrew from all management positions and a new management was put in place. That was the main event.

Now, how come that the Church is almost constantly under such enormous pressure?

If you have ever attended an IAS briefing, you will know that they give you some good news to start with, and then they tell you about all the court cases and trouble which needs to be handled. Usually donations to the IAS are obtained because fantastic amounts of dollars are needed to fight the enemies. Think about this! Have you ever experienced this? Well, take a look at KSW series 1 again. "Attacks from governments or monopolies occur only where there are "no results" or "bad results.""

According to this the correct why for all the attacks and court cases threatening the survival of the Church is "no results" or "bad results", and that's that. In order to achieve no results or bad results the Tech must be altered. In it's pure form and applied correctly it DOES give good results, it gives SPECTACULAR results.

Starting to research the situation from this viewpoint it soon became clear that this IS the correct why. The Tech has been altered to a degree where squirreling would be the most correct expression covering the Church's current activities.

Golden Age of Tech is a good example. Good or bad, it IS a new learning method, not developed by LRH. Like it or not, it was developed by David Miscavige and NOT LRH. And Scientologists around the world applauded it. And it was in fact very well presented "The blind leading the blind". But it does put emphasis on rote learning rather than conceptual understanding. If you have done the Student Hat course you will remember that LRH put his emphasis on conceptual understanding, and talks about the glib student being a result of rote learning. GAT definitely opens the door to robotic learning. As Scientologist we all failed to do seven "Hammering out of existence incorrect technology" and nine "Closing the door on any possibility of incorrect technology".

Int managment introduced a hidden data line. There is a Scientology Policy Directive "Issue Line for Source Data" in which it is explained that Ron left handwritten notes which are being compiled and issued as HCOB's and HCO PL's. But the problem is that you are not allowed to actually SEE the handwritten notes. People who demand seeing the actual notes are likely to be sendt to Ethics, Sec-check or are com-ev'ed. There are several examples of that. They are charged with acting in disrespect of Management. In other words Int Management can basically issue whatever they want and just say that it is based on LRH handwritten notes. You can never see the notes and thus a hidden dataline has been effectively established.

AFHOPPEREN
Mine 20 år i Scientology
published by
Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag
on
28th September 2011

Jyllandsposten wrote

A well written and captivating portrayal of life with Scientology. But also in a broader sense a relevant journey into a state of mind, where sci-fi-science meets religiosity and management thinking.

’The Defector’ is well written and shocking. Especially the detailed descriptions of the main character's equal parts of intoxication and basic anxiety of being part of something larger...

The book is intelligently composed. Robert Dam 'cross-cuts' between his own history and the history of the Scientology movement from its beginnings with the author Hubbards bestseller 'Dianetics - The Modern Science og Mental Health' from 1950 through the scandals, the criticism and his death in 1986 and up until today.

Dam's story about Scientology is the story of what faith and certainty can do to a human being.But it is also a moral tale about putting a stop to something and to have the courage to dare do away with a part of ones' self.

Politiken wrote

Strong Scientology-biography confronts 20 years of fake and scam

In ’The Defector’ Robert Dam tells about his almost 20 years in Scientology, up till 2003, where he decided to tell the world about the greedy and lying system created by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1950, who then carried on to develop his own religion...

Robert Dam wrote a website for ex-scientologists, which is the basis of his book..that has its strength in the well writen personal story, which the author apparently lays out undisguised.